DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — In eastern Ukraine, where the country’s pro-Russian insurgency has claimed thousands of lives, the region’s top university is a major victim of the bitterness and rifts the fighting has caused.
The conflict has not only split the university in half and forced many students and professors to quit, it also has affected everything from the school’s curriculum and the language of its instruction to its coat of arms and diplomas.
For the moment, the main struggle is to keep the university going as staff members and students flee in droves, many of them attending classes in a newly …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
